running tests

running tests

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to test julia on a machine with
moderately sized ram (say 4gb). The usual "make test" launches all the
threads and takes up full memory freezing the machine. I tried the
following too -

I had to stop here as my ram was almost full. I could not find this
issue in the mailing list or github issues. (Perhaps I did not look
thoroughly.) I think this should be considered a bug. Also there
should be a way to run the tests with a single thread using make.

Re: running tests

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to test julia on a machine with
> moderately sized ram (say 4gb). The usual "make test" launches all the
> threads and takes up full memory freezing the machine. I tried the
> following too -
>
> julia> Base.runtests(["all"], 1)
>
> * linalg/triangular maxrss 639.86 MB
> * linalg/qr maxrss 731.17 MB
> * linalg/dense maxrss 766.48 MB
> * linalg/matmul maxrss 819.12 MB
> ...
>
> * abstractarray maxrss 3048.26 MB
> * intfuncs maxrss 3048.26 MB
> * simdloop maxrss 3048.26 MB
> * vecelement maxrss 3048.26 MB
> * blas ^C
>
> I had to stop here as my ram was almost full. I could not find this
> issue in the mailing list or github issues. (Perhaps I did not look
> thoroughly.) I think this should be considered a bug. Also there
> should be a way to run the tests with a single thread using make.
>
> With best regards,
> Rajeev